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The Pearson Institute Research and Innovation Fund
Each year, The Pearson Institute’s Research and Innovation Fund provides grants to University of Chicago faculty and PhD students conducting research on global conflict. Studies must be rooted in innovative, data-driven research that seeks to understand and reduce global conflict and demonstrates public policy impact.
Researchers awarded a Pearson Grant explore topics that are regionally and topically diverse, each with a focus on using quantitative social science to advance the study of conflict and the potential to advance public policy involving global conflict.
The deadline to apply is December 13, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. CT.
The Pearson Institute Research and Innovation Fund 2024 Awardees
2024 Awardees
Michael Albertus
Professor, Political Science
Ethnic Community Recognition and State-Insurgent Contestation: Evidence from Peru
Sonja Castañeda Dower
PhD Candidate, Political Science
Forced Assimilation and Demands for Sovereignty:RenamingIndigenous People in the U.S.,1890-1910
Sushant Banjara, Claire Fan, and Varun Kapoor
PhD Candidates, Economics and Harris Public Policy
Environmental degradation in one’s own backyard: Evidence from sand mining in India
Lautaro Cella
PhD Candidate, Political Science
Support for Pro-Indigenous Policies Amid Conflict.The Case of the Mapuche in Chile and Argentina
Siobhan Finnerty
PhD Candidate, Political Science
Corporations, Community, and Cocoa: A Role for Non-State Actors in Rural Stability
Varun Kapoor
PhD Candidate, Economics
Local and Migrant Worker Conflict in Spot Labor Markets
Nina Kerkebane
PhD Candidate, Harris Public Policy
Understanding and perturbing discriminatory social norms in Nigeria to alleviate conflict: the case of the Ohu system
Benjamin Lessing
Associate Professor, Political Science
Modeling Persistent Duopolies of Violence: How the State Gets Drug Gangs to Govern for It
Sasha Petrov
PhD Candidate, Economics
Optimal Jurisdictional Borders in Africa
Madeleine Stevens
PhD Candidate, Political Science
“Subversives” and “Delinquents”: The Politics of Active Disappearance in Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico
Nicolás Torres-Echeverry
PhD Candidate, Sociology
Between War and Peace: Political Organizing in Twenty-First Century Colombia
Rebecca Wolfe
Senior Lecturer, Harris Public Policy
Shifting the conversation: Piloting behaviorally-informed digital peacebuilding interventions to curb dangerous speech
Austin L. Wright
Assistant Professor, Harris Public Policy
Regime Change and State Capacity
2023 Awardees
Ari Anisfeld and Pepi Pandiloski
PhD Candidates, Harris Public Policy
Social Learning in Segregated Networks
Maria Angélica Bautista
Senior Research Associate, Harris Public Policy
Elements of an African Theory of International Relations
Raman Chhina and Varun Kapoor
PhD Candidates, Economics
Persistence of Political Conflicts: Evidence from Resettlement in East Punjab
Hope Dancy
PhD Candidate, Political Science
Colonial Agreements Project
Shanon Hsuan-Ming Hsu
PhD Candidate, Economics
Industrial Policy, Firm Ownerships, and Ethnic Inequality in Malaysia
Luis Martinez et al.
Assistant Professor, Harris Public Policy
Bourbon Reforms and State Capacity in the Spanish Empire
Jose Miguel Pascual Moreno
PhD Candidate, Harris Public Policy
Labor Unions and Mechanization
John Henry Murdy
PhD Candidate, Political Science
How International Criminal Organizations Consolidate Power: A Crisis in Ecuador
Raul Sanchez de la Sierra and Soeren Henn
Assistant Professor, Harris Public Policy; Lecturer, New Castle University Business School
Challenging Territorial Conceptions of the State: The Bandits Own Perspective
Daniel J. Sonnenstuhl
PhD Candidate, Harris Public Policy
The Causes and Implications of the Pentecostal Movement: Evidence from Nigeria
Madeleine Stevens
PhD Candidate, Political Science
Annihilating “Subversives” and Dehumanizing “Delinquents”: Enforced Disappearance from the Cold War through the War on Terror
Maya Van Nuys
PhD Candidate, Political Science
Policing the International: IOs in the Production of Global Policing Norms
Rebecca Wolfe
Senior Lecturer, Harris Public Policy
Reducing Violence Versus Building Trust: Exploring the Joint Effect of Top-down and Bottom-up Peacebuilding Interventions